Right down the street from the Victoria Theatre -yet a whole new spelling of Theater- is the Roxie (the Mission’s other movie theater). Every year the Roxie is the San Francisco home of the 48 Hour Film Festival- this is a daunting and awesome project where filmmakers are given 48hrs to complete a film with [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Meaningful Events @ the Roxie
Posted in Roxie Theater, tagged 48hourfilmproject, Anotherholeinthehead, Roxie MissionSF on June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Michael Pollan comes to the Mission- a smorgasbord of missed opportunities
Posted in Victoria Theatre, tagged Fresh Foodinc., MichaelPollan, missedopportunities, MissionSF, Trannyshack, Victoriatheatre on June 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This Friday our local boy, the super fabulous Michael Pollan, will be participating in a panel discussion after a screening of the movie Fresh. Fresh the movie is a “New way of thinking on what we’re eating.” A documentary about food seemingly in direct competition with Food Inc. also in theaters, and also featuring the [...]
Sita Sings the Blues for YOU
Posted in Dolorespark, tagged Dolorespark, Doloresparkmovienight, MissionSF, scary on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here again already!? Tonight go see “An animated version of an epic Indian tale” at the best little park in the world. Personally animation terrifies me. But regardless this looks pretty sweet. Plus any event that officially starts at “dusk” is OK by me.
Shotwell & 18th: the reason WTF was invented
Posted in Shotwell, tagged Freud, MissionSF, Shotwell, WTF on June 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
What the fuck does this mean?!??!?!??! Seriously??? Anyone have any ideas? I’ve been seeing this car parked outside of the ODC Dance Commons (Shotwell & 17th/18th) for a while now. I still don’t have any theories. ***UPDATE*** My co-worker just pointed out that this is a penis. doy! I mean it’s still inexplicable why someone [...]
Man Has Derogatory Nickname For Every Neighboring Town
Posted in haters, tagged douchbagery, MissionSF on June 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I love derogatory nicknames for neighboring towns as much as the next person. My bay area favorites include EL Slob and Pin-hole. And of course there’s Ocean-slime, my hometown. At a party in Albany last weekend someone asked me where I lived. me: “the city.” him: “the shitty?” me: blank stare. him: “where in the [...]
Overheard in Rainbow
Posted in Rainbowgrocery, tagged greatestplaceonearth, MissionSF, pizza, Rainbowgrocery, sfpride on June 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Would the employee who just ordered a pizza please come to the kiosk? The employee who just ordered a pizza. Please come the the kiosk.” What a store!!! Any business that’s closed for gay pride is OK by me…
